Author Archives: David Arkwright

HMS Queen Elizabeth leaves Rosyth after a docking period. Now at anchor in the river just outside the dockyard, awaiting a tidal window to pass under the Forth Bridges. She will then go for sea trials. Photos from Navy Lookout.

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HMS Vanguard returned to Faslane today after 205 days away, breaking the previous record for the longest unbroken patrol by a Royal Navy submarine.

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In March 1993, beneath the freezing waters near the Kola Peninsula, a silent confrontation turned into a violent collision between the U.S. Navy submarine USS Grayling and the Russian nuclear ballistic missile submarine K-407 Novomoskovsk.

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RFATideforce monitored two Russian shadow fleet tankers, MV Enigma and MV Universal, escorted by frigate RFS Admiral Grigorovich as they transited westwards through the English Channel recently. No boardings of illegal tankers have yet been conducted since Keir Starmer said he would authorise such operations on 25th March.

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